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J. C. F. McCAULEY. HEADER;

APPLICATION FILED MIG-7| 191s.

1216,55. Patented Feb. 20,1917.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 20, 1917.

Application filed August 7, 1916. Serial No. 113,572.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN C. F. MCOAU- LEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fowler, in the county of Meade and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Headers, of which the following is a specification, reference be ing had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain improvements in harvesters and has relation more particularly to a combined harvester and thresher and wherein the harvesting mechanism constitutes a header; and it is an object of the invention to provide novel and improved means whereby a supplemental or extra swath may be cut and delivered to the main draper or carrying belt.

It is also an object of the invention to provide a supplemental header having novel and improved means whereby it may be effectively operated in connection with the main heading mechanism together with means whereby the grain collected by said supplemental header may be conveyed or delivered to the draper or carrying belt of the main header.

The invention also has for an object to provide a novel and improved arrangement of parts whereby a supplemental header may be employed in connection with a main header and wherein said supplemental header is operated independently of the main header together with means whereby the headers are protected against injury one by the other when in coiiperating relation.

The invention consists in the details of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts of my improved harvester whereby certain important advantages are attained and the device is rendered slmpler, less expensive and otherwise more convenient and advantageous for use, all as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

The novel features of. the invention will hereinafter be definitely claimed.

In order that my invention may be the better understood, I will now proceed to describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a fragmentary top plan view illustrating a main header and a supplemental header constructed in accordance with an embodiment of my invention;

Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken substan tially on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken substan tially 011 the line 3-3 of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary view in perspective illustrating the bumper herein embodied and carried by the supplemental header.

As disclosed in the accompanying drawings, F denotes the frame of a main header H which includes a grain platform which carries the draper or carrying belt D, the same being of any well known construction and which is generally employed in con nection with a threshing machine (not illustrated). The portion of the frame F rearwardly of the back shield or screen S supports the endless conveyer C adapted to be suitably driven, as indicated at 1, from a movable part of the header H or the threshing machine or in any manner which best suits the requirements of practice and said conveyer C extends throughout its length in the same direction as the direction of travel of the header.

The conveyer C travels between the side boards 2 anddelivers within the chute 3 discharging upon the draper or carrying belt Said endless conveyor C is preferably "positioned at a point substantially midway of the header H. The outer side board 2 is provided with the inwardly disposed apron 4 as is also the rear end board 5 so that the grain discharged from the supplemental header H may be properly delivered upon the conveyor C. The second or inner side board 2 is preferably provided with the upstanding guard or shield 6 of canvas or other suitable material for a purpose which is believed to be self-evident.

The header H of conventional construe tion and is adapted to be operated independently of the header H preferably by draft animals and in a well known manner, and the draper or carrying belt D of the header H delivers upon the elevating mechanism E and when the header H is in assembled relation relative to the header H the elevating mechanism E discharges upon the conveyer C hereinbefore referred to, and in order to facilitate such discharge the upper or outer end of the elevating mechanism E is provided with the downwardly extended hood or chute A so that the possibility of any of the grain becoming iudiscriminately scattered or lost is lessened.

Disposed along the upper marginal portion of the outer side board 2 is a rail or rod 7 preferably of metal and circular in cross the inner end section and with which is adapted to contact the rollers 8 carried by and positioned beneath the opposite sides of the elevating mechanism E so that any relative'independ-f ent movement of the headers H and H when in assembled or cooperative relation will not bumper B carried by the inner end portions of the header H is adapted to contact so that the headers H and H are protected against injury should the header H be caused to advance sutliciently as to come into contactwith the header H.

As herein embodied, the bumper B comprises an elongated metallic rod secured to of the forward marginal por- 'tion of the header H and disposed upwardly '25: ous parts of the; header H as the construcinexpensive on a predetern'iined curvature, and bracing said bumperB is a plurality of brace rods 10 interposed between the bumper and van- 'tionof the header H permits.

7 From the *foregoing description, it :is thought to be obvious" that a header construeted in-ac'cordance with my invention is of an "extremely simple and comparatively platform,

, nature and 'is particularly well adapted for use by reason of the convenience and facility with which it maybe assembled, and it will also be obvious that my invention is susceptible of some change and modification without material departure from the principles and spirit thereof and for this reason I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to the precise arrangement and formation of the several parts herein shown in carrying out my invention in practice, except as hereinafter claimed.

' I claim:

In combination, a header including a grain a draper carried by the platform and traveling in a path at right angles to the direction of travel of the header, a conveyor carried by the header rearwardly of the draper substantially midway the length of the diaper, said conveyor being extended throughout its length in substantially the same general direction as the direction of travel of the header, and a second header operated independently of the first named header and provided with a header elevator discharging upon the conveyor of the first named header.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aliix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN C. F. MCCAULEY.

Witnesse J. F. SWEET, M. L. Monnisoiv.

Copies 01 this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Y e Washington, D. C.

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